GLOSSARY OF PERSONS

the Restoration. A cousin and patron of John Aubrey, he married

a sister of Judge Jenkins and was probably the source of Aubrey's

fatefrd story. His estates were confiscated during the interregnum.

AUBREY, SIR JOHN (c. 1650-1700), 2nd Bart., was a cousin and patron

of John Aubrey, who wrote to Llwyd in 1695 : I am extremely

caressed here by my Noble Chief Sir J. A. where I am treated with all the

varieties that Sea and Land affords. In the afternoon we shove the Tankard

and the Bottle one to another in the bond of Peace and frequently drinke

jour good health.

AUBREY, RICHARD (1603-52) of Burleton, Hereford, and Broad
Chalke, Wiltshire, the father of John Aubrey.

AUBREY, THOMAS (1645-81), brother of John Aubrey, who enlisted
his aid in various antiquarian researches. He died unmarried.

AUBREY, WILLIAM (1529-95), Fellow of All Souls, Principal of New
Inn Hall and Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, later became
Advocate in the Court of Arches, Chancellor to Archbishop
Whitgift and Master in Chancery. A favourite of Queen Elizabeth,
he founded the fortunes of his family and was great-grandfather
of John Aubrey.

AUBREY, WILLIAM (1643-1707), brother of John Aubrey, who enlisted
his aid in various antiquarian researches and acknowledged htm
an excellent Herald. Relations between the two deteriorated later,
and in 1682 John Aubrey wrote to Wood My Tygre brother and I
are at so great a difference (too long here to relate} that I beleeve we stall
never close again, and after this there are constant references to
trouble. Upon a threatning of my brother to throw me into Gaole,
reads one letter: Some mere I must retire for fear of my Brother
and other Creditors, runs another. In the end, however, John
Aubrey took the blame on himself: My brother has been unkind
to me (and God forgive me) I have undonne him and my selfe. The truetb
is, I was never made to manage an estate> and was predestinated to be
cosened and cheated. William Aubrey died unmarried.

AUGUSTUS, OCTAVIUS CAESAR (63 B.C.-A.D. 14), the first Roman
emperor.

AVICENNA (980-1037), Arabian physician, mathematician and
philosopher.

AYLESBURY, SIR THOMAS (1576-1657), Master of the Mint and a great
patron of mathematical learning, was cashiered as a Royalist in
1642 and retired to the Continent ten years later.

AYTON, SIR ROBERT (1570-1638), poet and courtier, competed for
the Provostship of Eton, when it fell to Sk Henry Wotton.

BACON, ANTHONY (1558-1601), elder brother of Francis Bacon,
toured the Continent in search of political intelligence from 1579

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